noun
1.
a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk.
2.
family relationship or kinship.
3.
a group of persons descended from a common ancestor or constituting a family, clan, tribe, or race.
4.
a relative or kinsman.
5.
someone or something of the same or similar kind: philosophy and its kin, theology.
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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
8.
of kin, of the same family; related; akin: Although their surnames are identical they are not of kin.
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kin (kɪn) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person's relatives collectively; kindred |
| 2. | a class or group with similar characteristics |
| 3. | See next of kin |
| —adj | |
| 4. | (postpositive) related by blood |
| 5. | a less common word for akin |
| [Old English cyn; related to Old Norse kyn family, Old High German kind child, Latin genus kind] | |
| -kin | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| small: lambkin | |
| [from Middle Dutch, of West Germanic origin; compare German -chen] | |
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Word Origin & History
kin
O.E. cyn "family, race, kind, nature," from P.Gmc. *kunjan (cf. O.N. kyn, O.H.G. chunni, Goth. kuni "family, race," O.N. kundr "son," Ger. kind "child"), from PIE *gen- "to produce" (see genus). Kinship is a modern word, first attested 1833 in writing of Mrs. Browning.
-kin
dim. suffix, first attested mid-13c. in proper names adopted from Flanders and Holland, probably from M.Du. -kin, properly a double-dim., from -k + -in. Equivalent to Ger. -chen.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
Fascinating that qualities of its blood let it soar higher than many of its kin.
Once again, the microbe-free animals proved themselves bolder than their colonized kin.
While trouble crops up continually for Lucy and her kin, they sail through nearly unscathed.
Though less studied, cetacean matriarchs may shepherd kin to lush feeding grounds along migration routes.
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